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Posted on 05/30/2004 12:05:02 AM PDT by JustPiper
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"I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat"
KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia - Tens of American, European and other hostages were released Sunday and a gunman believed to be the lead Islamic militant holding them was arrested, a Saudi security official said, adding that two other gunmen were "in the process of being arrested."
We are the "Stotters" who make ourselves aware of the enemy who wishes to do us harm
No problem, I don't have as much time as I used to for digging through groups. The new job is great, only a 15 minute drive from home. Got my first paycheck today. WhoooHooooo!!!
New graphics on this site, but not the same as yours stillproud2befree
http://www.forsan.net/animation/pic/president.JPG
http://www.forsan.net/perfile/gbush/personal.HTM
My thoughts exactly, he should have kept going. It's too bad I guess he panicked.
I saw this a couple days ago.
One thing, I do believe, however, is that we will see things like this happening in the United States.
the PDA in the second image lists Bush's occupation as Terrorist (Irhab)
One more thing that wasn't in the article. They said the cadets searched for the casings and other clues. Found casings but didn't know if they were from this shooting or some other one. Ya gotta live in or near LA to understand that one!!
I imagine ballistics should tell them if they match though.
I understand that one too well. I stayed in Compton with one of my best friends for about 2 months. Not a single night went by that we didn't hear gunfire from her balcony.
Explosion of Russian Oil Station (Saturday, June 5th)
There has been an explosion at an oil pumping station in the southern Russian town of Neftekumsk, about 100km north of the Chechen border.
Initial reports said a device had been planted underneath a 5,000-tonne oil cistern, causing a fire which was extinguished before it could spread.
There are no reports of any casualties, and local officials said that there was no serious damage. Neftekumsk is in Stavropol region, which borders the volatile Caucasus. Link to Article
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Radioactive Truck Found Near Govt Building in Far East (Russia)
Created: 02.06.2004 20:30 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 11:17 MSK
A truck loaded with a radioactive cargo was discovered parked near a government building in the seaport city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy in the Russian Far East, NTV news channel reported.
The truck was loaded with metal hardware resembling military equipment. Radioactive levels were found to be several times above the norm. Taking special precautions, Emergency Ministry specialists and military personnel drove the truck away. The local prosecutor’s office is investigating the incident. Link to Article
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Fake Explosives Left on KTX Track in Busan (Japan)
Quite a commotion took place this morning when high-speed KTX bullet train service was discontinued for a short time after something resembling explosives was discovered on the tracks. At 7:25 a.m., a 21 centimeter-long, 2.5 centimeter wide object in the shape of a candle and imprinted with an industrial high-explosive dynamite brand name was discovered on the tracks near Busan Station's platform number 9......
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Explosion at Plant in La Porte; One Confirmed Dead (Houston, TX - June 4th)
Updated: 6/4/2004 2:57 PM By: News 24 Houston
There has been an explosion at the Calpine Clear Lake Energy plant in La Porte in the 9600 block of Bayport Road. A spokesperson for Calpine has confirmed that one person was killed in the explosion.
Plant officials say high pressure led to a ruptured water pipe which caused the explosion. "We can confirm there was an accident ot Clear Lake Power Plant. The fatality was an employee of one of Calpine's subcontractors at the Clear Lake Power Plant," PR Director for the Houston headquaters of Calpine Meg Laidlaw says. "An expansion joint that carries water ruptured during startup of a portion of the plant. The person who was harmed was in the immediate vicinity. Link to Article
Ugh Compton is one of the worst. Although they are all becoming the worst these days.
Years ago I used to go to Hollywood Park by myself sometimes. Off the Harbor freeway down Century Blvd. Yikes I wouldn't be caught dead there anymore OR I should say now if I went I might be.
Londoner Accused of Airline Bomb Threat (Update to Airline bomb threat to 2 Planes in Philadelphia this week)
3:32am (UK) A Londoner made a bomb threat against two American Airlines flights to allow another traveller time to retrieve her passport, the FBI said today.
Ilyas Savas, 33, and Hatice Ceylan, 18, were charged with offences including conspiracy, said Jeffrey Lampinki, special agent in charge for the FBI’s Philadelphia office.
The suspects had been due to fly from Philadelphia to Boston on Wednesday and then to London, but Ceylan forgot her passport, the FBI said.
Savas allegedly called in the bomb threat to a hotel on Wednesday morning to give Ceylan time to get the document, the FBI said. It was not clear why the call wasn’t made directly to the airline.
Nineteen passengers were evacuated from the Philadelphia-Boston flight and were rescreened while the plane was searched. Nothing was found, but the flight was cancelled anyway. The Boston-London flight was also searched before it was allowed to take off with 159 passengers, officials said.
It was not immediately clear if either defendant had a lawyer. Ceylan is from Edgewater Park, New Jersey. Savas lives in London, authorities say. Link to Article
Hollywood sources tell LA Weekly columnist Nikki Finke that former President Ronald Reagan's medical condition has suddenly worsened. "He really took a downslide today," the insider told Finke Friday evening. "Doctors are at the house. Things aren't good."
At the start of the day, several news organizations chased down a rumor that the ex-president had died, but it wasn't true... Family members gathered at the Reagan's Bel Air home late Friday... Developing... Link to Drudge
Here's a list I just wrote up (hope I got all the typos, and I'll probably remember other stuff later. Also later I'll put info about useful foods and simple nutrition.)
Homestyle Natural and Simple Remedies
Hygiene
1. Sponge baths get one remarkably clean if you use even a gallon of water, a tiny bit of soap, and a washcloth. Just start at the top and work down.
2. You can never have too many white plastic buckets. For bathing, water carrying, compost, toilets (don't ever use them for anything else after that!), food storage, bathing, upside down as chairs, etc.
3. Tooth brushes can be made of thin flexible twigs of many trees. A twig no bigger than a little finger, cut at an angle and peeled, works very well. Often they can be chewed at the end to make a brush. I have used eucalyptus twigs and my teeth were cleaner than with a regular toothbrush. Try fruit trees, birch, mango (if you're lucky!), or resinous trees. Make sure they're not a poisonous plant!
4. Fine salt makes a great dentifrice, as does baking soda.
5. A pinch of baking soda rubbed in a damp armpit not only acts as a very effective deoderant, but helps eliminate unpleasant body odor already happening.
6. If there isn't enough water to bathe well, washing the face, hands, feet and private parts daily will keep you going for a while.
7. You can't have too many washcloths. They can be used for many things and are easy to wash out and hang up to use again.
8. Adding a couple of drops of various essential oils such as lavendar, eucalyptus, and many others will not only improve one's smell but they actually help kill germs.
9. White vinegar has many uses - a tablespoon or so in washing water helps cut soap scum, helps maintain the Ph of the skin so it heals better and resists infections, and can be applied directly to fungus infections of the skin, helps heal them fast. Stings though.
10. Have several fingernail brushes - brush the nails regularly as germs love to live in dirty fingernails!
11. Have a few nail clippers as nothing cuts nails as well.
Toilets
I have seen many recommendations to use buckets with plastic bags in them to use for toilets in time of emergency. I think this is a very bad idea, unless you know it's for very short term. Reason: what will you do with all those plastic bags???? Anyone with access to even a medium sized back yard can make a trench latrine or composting toilet. I have used both and they work, and the excrement composts - faster than you'd think - instead of accumulating. A trench latrine is a long trench, as deep as you want to make it (within reason) and just start at one end, use it, bury it, and keep going. Boards can be placed across it for feet. A composting toilet can be made using plastic buckets. Here's the method: Get several plastic buckets with lids, a toilet seat, and either sawdust, wood chips or shavings (better from raw wood rather than kiln dried lumber), dry leaves such as found in the woods, or even dirt. Sprinkle some of the filler stuff on the bottom of the bucket, and add a handful after every use. When full, put the lid on it and set aside. When several buckets are full, have a place set aside to dump them, and cover the whole mess with sawdust, wood chips, leaves, or dirt. It composts amazingly fast. You want to avoid peeing in the buckets more than you have to.
It can't be emphasized enough how important it is to wash hands carefully after using toilets or cleaning the buckets.
Miscellaneous Helpful Hints
1. In the event of any kind of emergency, whether of long or short duration, it is of primary importance to keep up one's spirits and a cool head. Therefore, I highly recommend making sure you have inspirational literature - I have the Bible, the Bhagavad Gita, and others that I find enlightening. Such books can be read and re-read for inspiration, comfort, and guidance and are of inestimable value.
2. Useful practical books should be kept handy.
3. Especially if there are children, some time of entertainment should be available - or some kind of handwork that is useful to do and entertaining. There are so many things that it is really individual. When people (and kids) are used to depending on electronic entertainment, and are all of a sudden deprived of it, there needs to be something to take its place.
4. Don't forget good knives, scissors and knife and scissors sharpeners. Also matches and lighters.
5. Useful items like good glue (different kinds for gluing different substances), various kinds of string, tape, sewing things, safety pins, writing materials.
6. A diary or blank book may be useful - you may want to remember things, or write experiences or thoughts to read later.
7. Hardly anyone dies of being too hot but plenty of people die from cold. Wool and down insulate better than most other things.
8. Even though they make you look like the cast in "The Postman", I highly recommend fingerless gloves.
8. Musical instruments make wonderful companions. Make sure you have enough strings for stringed instruments!
9. If there is a longterm disruptive situation, clothes may need to be washed in disadvantageous conditions. I have seen in a catalog "The Vermont Country Store" (www.vermontcountrystore.com) a device for washing clothes in a bathtub, looked like a plunger. Wringing them out is the tough part, having a stationary pole and twisting them using the pole or with another person is much easier on the wrists. A wooden clothes rack or clothesline gets them dry. It is MUCH easier on the hands to wash clothes with mild soap rather than strong detergents.
10. Rubber gloves - in sizes that fit. You never know when you'll have to get your hands in something you'd rather not, or just to save your hands from cold water or cleaners.
11. Old towels for rags. You can't have too many.
12. Wool blankets are warmer than artificial fiber ones. You can always find a use for them.
First Aid Home Remedies
1. Lavender Oil (pure essential oil, NOT "fragrance" or "fragrance oil"!!!) has many uses, some of which are:
headaches, muscle aches, BURNS (excellent), nervousness. Just smelling the oil can help, in the case of burns apply it directly. For sun burn, dilute with water and spray or dab on.
2. Tea Tree Essential Oil - kills bacteria. Very good to apply to cuts or infections, or dilute for gargling. It also helps speed up the healing of cold sores on the lips.
3. Eucalyptus oil is not only highly antiseptic, but helps breathing. It can be smelled, a drop or two put on one's clothing, or drops place in a bowl of hot water and breathe in the steam. If anyone has asthma make sure you have plenty of inhalers, but to save their use (or if you run out) you can use eucalyptus to help, as well as some other essential oils such as sweet basil, rosemary, peppermint, camphor and all the tree oils like pine, fir and spruce. I use these a lot as I have asthma.
Peppermint oil - again, make sure these are good quality PURE essential oils - not flavorings, perfumes or fragrances) - is very good for headaches, nausea, and drowsiness. Very good for children's illnesses. A drop can be taken in water, too - for nausea, indigestion, headaches.
4. Clay - it can be purchased at natural food stores in bulk. It needs to be stored, mixed with water, in a glass, stone ware or porcelain container with a lid on it. The way to mix it is put in dry clay, pour water on the top (more than you'd think it needs) and let it sit overnight. Don't stir it up. Just keep on hand. It is absolutely amazing stuff. Put it on boils, pimples, splinters, rashes, burns, cuts, even helps with sprains or (the tales say) broken bones. It is considered even to help with serious illness like cancer. It draws out impurities, poisons, and speeds healing of tissues. It also takes away pain. Spread it on, and wash off when dry or warmed up. A book I highly recommend is "Our Earth Our Cure" by Michael Abehsera. (I know, it sounds kooky, but I have used clay successfully for many years.)
5. Clean old sheets and Tee shirts can be saved and ripped or cut in strips for use as bandages. Regular bandaids are small, the sticky stuff wears off and many people itch from it.
6. The powdered spice Turmeric (available at natural food stores in bulk, and in California many regular grocery stores have it in bulk) is a strong medicine. It is in the same family as golden seal (way too expensive to use nowadays) and ginger. Turmeric can be applied to cuts or wounds, helps heal and quells infections. It can be taken internally for infectious illness, helps with digestion as well. Can be gargled for sore throats. For cuts or wounds just sprinkle on.
7. For pain I use a Chinese linament "Zhengu Shui" available at natural food stores, or more cheaply, in Chinatowns. It is the most effective pain linament I know of. In the event of disaster or disruption, you may have to work harder than usual, and may incur muscle aches and pains.
8. Good shoes and plenty of socks are very important.
9. Eyecups are very useful, if dust or other things get in the eyes washing out the eye with an eyecup can be vital. I use rosewater as it helps curtail inflammation, there are other kinds of eyewashes available.
10. Drinking water - I highly recommend a Berkefeld water purifier. I have had two, and like them tremendously. The water tastes excellent, they filters last for years, and they filter out just about everything that could cause harm. Check them out on the internet. Missionaries in 3rd world countries use them because they don't require water pressure or electricity to use, nor do the filters need replacing often.
11. Powdered ginger is useful to have on hand. Mixed with hot water and a spot of honey or sugar, it taste very good, heats up the body, helps when sick with a fever, cold or sore throat, and helps with digestion. Adding nutmeg powder (a little) helps people calm down, or even fall asleep.
12. Vitamin E oil (I get mine at Trader Joe's, but you can get it just about anywhere) is very good for healing skin problems, or for dry skin. Other skin lotion or natural oils such as almond are excellent for keeping the skin healthy.
13. Castor oil is very good for sprains or other joint or muscle pains. It is sticky and kind of messy, but rub in in and layer a piece of flannel or old sheet on it. It has helped me often. Get a bottle of castor oil and have it on hand.
What an excellent list. Thank you.
They are all things I have used and use often. I like cheap and natural!
Very useful list, several new to me or reminders of things that I should be stocking/using.
Thank you for all your work.
For those of you in areas with high summer temperatures, keep this in mind, no booze or sweet drinks, or you will be even more thirsty. After dark, then the good drinks are ok.
If possible, use a slice of lemon in your water.
My friend Mary told me that in the 1920's and for the 50 years that they farmed in Wellton, if she didn't have lemon to put in the water, she used a dash of lemon in the water for the men working in the field..
In Wellton, we did not drink really cold drinks until dark.
Once will be all you ever want to try drinking too much water.
A pinch of salt now and then, straight is ok, some take salt pills in the heat, but I couldn't so Mary had me keep boxes of salt in the vehicles for heat stroke prevention.
Ruth
The line about Mary and lemon in the water should read that if she didn't have lemon, she then used a dash of vinegar in the water.......it helps cut the thrist.
One can't have too much salt on hand. If someone has an infection on the foot, soaking in hot/warm salt water is helpful.
Even a salt rubdown before bathing is healthful and invigorating.
Placemarker
Prayer is powerful...
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